THE PAJAMAS PARTY
By Gigi

What is up with the boys and girls (mostly teenagers) in my neighborhood wearing their PJs in the streets? Everywhere I look, people are making themselves at home—on the streets. When did this look become fashion forward? It is the equivalent of when people use to walk around wearing the plastic wave caps (to preserve their jheri curls or women still walking around with curlers in their hair in the streets) in the 80s and early 90s; or boys (and sometimes grown men who ought to know better) who still walk around with their jeans or sweat pants hanging off their asses; OR walking around the City with their sneaker laces untied. This slovenly mode of dress is not acceptable or cute ladies and gentlemen; I see you taking your younger sibling to school in pajamas bottoms and flip-flops; I see you in the bodegas buying coffee, cigarettes and newspapers in your jammies; I see you in the laundromat or at the pay phones in your chenille robes…PLEASE PUT ON SOME DAMN CLOTHES!!! HAVE SOME MODICUM OF RESPECT FOR YOURSELVES!!!! Just because you’re in the ‘hood, doesn’t mean you have to act and dress like ghetto hood rats!!! So respect yourself.